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Good time to buy a SSD (Intel 520 180gb $229)

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MadEmperor

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I'm thinking about buying a new SSD:
Intel 520 180GB at newegg for $229

Think I should buy it or should I hold out for anything that's right around the corner?
(example, Ivy Bridge is coming on in 4days, I'd hold out if i were buying a CPU)
 
I wouldnt touch it if my life depended on it. Its SandForce and it BSOD and gets sudden death.

I would either get the 320 (Most reliable one). The M4/C400 best alternative. Or the 510 series, but thats EOL.
 
ShintaiDK said:
I wouldnt touch it if my life depended on it. Its SandForce and it BSOD and gets sudden death.

I would either get the 320 (Most reliable one). The M4/C400 best alternative. Or the 510 series, but thats EOL.
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The 320 is not reliable. Mine died 2x in 48 hours (8MB bug) even with latest firmware.
 
No drives are 100% reliable. It sucks that Anonemous's drive died, but that's mostly annecdotal evidence (bad drives do occasionally ship).

I've heard good things about Intel, Samsung, and Crucial's m4 lines. Unfortunately, without a look at actual return rates, it's more of a "feeling" based on forum posts and news article than anything statistically relevant.

Personally, I've run an Intel G2, an Intel 320, and just bought 2 330's (120 GB). So far no issues for me. 520 looks awesome (but wasn't worth the ~20-30 price bump from the 330, imo).
 
Yea what sucks is that I never used sleep. I either hibernate/shutdown computer and yet the Intel 320 still died.
 
Heh, just saw your other thread. While it does suck that it died, 1 failure does not make an entire product line "unreliable". If you have examples of a lot of others with similar experiences, then you might have a good case against a particular drives reliability.
 
Anonemous said:
The 320 is not reliable. Mine died 2x in 48 hours (8MB bug) even with latest firmware.
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Dont listen to this guy....he had 1 bad drive and now has the balls to say intel SSD drives are reliable.

Name 1 SSD manufacture who who hasn't made 1 bad drive?

Look at intels record...you will see that they have the least issues overall than most others if not all.
 
This is the first I've heard about the 8 mb bug with the latest firmware. With the number of 310's on the market, however, I'd say that 4 failures is acceptable.
 
chloros said:
Dont listen to this guy....he had 1 bad drive and now has the balls to say intel SSD drives are reliable.

Name 1 SSD manufacture who who hasn't made 1 bad drive?

Look at intels record...you will see that they have the least issues overall than most others if not all.
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If you looked on the intel forums, I'm not the only one that has the problem as I posted above.
 
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Running a 320, 120GB, in my SATA II laptop since January with no problems. Shipped with latest firmware.
 
I have 3-320'''s. Two in desktop (RaidO and one in laptop) Have never had any issues.
 
ShintaiDK said:
I wouldnt touch it if my life depended on it. Its SandForce and it BSOD and gets sudden death.

I would either get the 320 (Most reliable one). The M4/C400 best alternative. Or the 510 series, but thats EOL.
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Tell that to my 4 Wildfires, Chronos Deluxe, and Agility 3. Flawless, all of them.

And they aren't even Intel.

Of course I keep backups and I anticipate them failing because I don't trust any storage device, especially finicky SSDs that tend to die in a all or nothing manner. But they never do.
 
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